Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have developed a new visualization platform, underpinned by bioinformatics...
Genetic variability in the human immune system may affect susceptibility to and severity of infection by SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus which causes the...
A gene called AHL15 (AT-hook motif nuclear-localized protein 15) promotes longevity in annual flowering plants, according to a new study published in the...
Modern humans in Eurasia carry genetic material inherited from Altai Neanderthals, according to a study published in the journal Genetics. This is noteworthy...
A team of U.S. researchers has discovered a genetic mutation that improves cognitive flexibility in mice.
Hu et al reveal a novel mechanism regulating...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Europe has produced the first high-quality genomic sequence for the sterlet (Acipenser...
Two recent studies concluded that snakes are the intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, and that four...
An analysis of the genomes of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus which causes COVID-19 disease, and related coronaviruses found no evidence that the virus...
The Brain Atlas explores the protein expression in the mammalian brain by visualization and integration of data from three species of mammals: human, pig...
An analysis of DNA from wild populations of the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has found that there is not just one species but enough genetic differences...
An international team of biologists has discovered that a tiny parasite of salmon called Henneguya salminicola has no mitochondrial genome and thus has...
In a new study published today in the journal Communications Biology, an international team of researchers radiocarbon-dated an exceptionally well-preserved...
A research team led by New York University scientists has sequenced and analyzed the genomes of two members of the basmati rice group: a variety of basmati...
Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) were among the most abundant cold adapted species during the Pleistocene. Their once large populations went extinct...
A team of U.S. researchers has found ancient viruses and bacteria in ice from two cores drilled on the summit and plateau of the Guliya ice cap in northwestern...
Using a novel method for detecting Neanderthal ancestry in modern humans, a team of U.S. researchers has demonstrated that remnants of Neanderthal genomes...